Glover's Island Reef & Pinnacle

Glover's Island is a tiny protected mound of coral rock and scrub sitting off Prickly Bay, and the reef that rings it is one of the healthiest patches of ground...

Grand Anse Artificial Reef

Inside the Grand Anse Marine Protected Area — a no-fishing zone that guarantees the fish stay — the artificial reef structures sit on open sand doing the slow,...

Shark Reef

Shark Reef sits where the Atlantic hits Grenada's south coast, and the whole site is built around that energy: a strong, reliable current runs over reef bommies...

Snapper Ground

Snapper Ground shares the south coast's ocean energy with a gentler profile: a long reef face on the Atlantic side where the current combs the water column and...

The south and east coasts are the island's fishing backbone, so the eating is direct: grilled snapper or kingfish with dumplings and provision at the village cookshops, oild sardine from the Grenville roadside, and the famous oil-jack (soursop) blended cold at the juice stands. Sandy Island sandbar trips with a grill lunch are the classic non-diving outing on this coast. On Carriacou the grill houses serve whatever the day-boats bring in, and the nutmeg everything, oil jack (soursop) and local beers are island signatures.

Grand Anse Marriott

True Blue Bay Resort & Marina

Radisson Green Field Bay Resort

Great King's House Hotel

Turn your back on the Caribbean and the ocean changes character: the Atlantic-facing south coast takes the trade-wind swell and current head-on, and the reward is Grenada's big-water diving - drift dives over nursery grounds where nurse sharks stack in the hollows, eagle rays swim the flow and the fish stand their ground in moving water. This is the advanced coast, the wet-weather opposite of the sheltered southwest, and for many divers the best day of the week. Grenada sits on the southern edge of the Caribbean plate, where a volcanic core and a shelf that drops away steeply from the southwest coast put walls, pinnacles and wrecks within a short boat ride of every base. Shark Reef and Snapper Ground anchor the Atlantic circuit, with Glover's Island and the Grand Anse MPA structures bridging between the two coasts. Behind the headliners runs a long fringe of named ground - Stingray Alley, Boulder City, the two Sharkies Hideaway spots, Windmill Shallows' narrow 6-9 m ridge, Kahonee, Kansas Reef and the rest - the sites operators slot in when the swell reads just right, and the reason a week here keeps producing new lines on the map. Trade winds blow almost constant over the Caribbean, and it is their lulls and builds that set the daily diving schedule around Grenada. Water temperature stays in the high twenties year-round and the island sits outside the main hurricane belt, so the dive boats run twelve months a year.

Grenada – South Coast (Atlantic Side)

The south coast is reached by boat from the southwest marinas - a 20-40 minute crossing that becomes the day's weather report - or from the east-side launches near Grenville for the most Atlantic-adjacent sites. Operators run the drifts on tide-timed mornings and only when the flow reads safe; a south-coast day is a planned expedition, not a default. When the trades drop and the swell flattens, the fleets move here as a group because nothing on the sheltered side matches the fish-in-current show. Logistics follow the drift's one-way logic: divers descend against the flow or get dropped up-current, the boat trails the descent, and everyone surfaces into a pickup with a positive float - which is why these sites are gated on buoyancy comfort and basic drift experience, not just a certification card.

Where to Stay in Grenada – South Coast (Atlantic Side)

Accommodation Overview

Recommended Areas

Grand Anse / Prickly Bay

Grenville area

St. David's

Featured Hotels & Resorts

Grand Anse Marriott

True Blue Bay Resort & Marina

Radisson Green Field Bay Resort

Great King's House Hotel